Electrical power transmission



A. u. AVERA ELECTRICAL POWER TRANSMISSION July 13 1926. i 1,591,953

Original Filed July 13, 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 July 13 1926. 1,591,953

A. U. AVERA ELECTRI CAL POWER TRANSMI SS ION Original Filed July 13,1922 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Chm vmq Patented July 13, 1926, i V v outrunstares rarest orrics.

Anon AVERA, on FLORENCE, ALABAMA.

nLEc'rnr'oAL rowan TRANSMISSION.

Qriginal application filed July 13, 1822, Serial No. 574,724. Dividedand this application filed May 2 1,

' 1923. Serial No. 641,101.

My invention relates to the transmission lVhile I have hereinillustrated and deof power to vehicles and has for its object scribedasingle specific embodiment of my 50 the provisionof means forperlnitt'ng veinvention for the sake of disclosure, it is to hicies,such as busses, canal boats, or the like, he understood that I do notlimit myself to 5 to pass on the same side of a stationary such specificform, but contemplate all such source of power supply withoutinterfermodifications and variants thereof as fairly ence, the presentapplication being a divifall within the scope of the appended sion of mycopending application, Serial No. clanns.

574,724, filed July 13, 1922. Having thus described my invention, Theinvention is illustrated in the a-ccoin- V whatl claim and desire tosecure by Letpan ing drawings, in which: tors Batent is:

Fig. 1 is a diagrammatic View showing 1. an electrical transportationsystem so the invent-ion applied to a system of traekcomprising aplurality of electrically driven less road vehicles; and vehicles, aroadway therefor, two sets of Fig. 2 is a side view of one of the roadtrolley power lines strung along one side of hi l'he madway, one abovethe other, a current Referring to the drawings in detail, the collectormember for each car arranged to 05 trolley conductors are strung alongone engage one of said trolley lines and adapted side of the roadway orcanal, as the case to move along the same and be supported 0 may b On tll y poles P i upper a d thereby, and a flexible conductor cable conlower sets 1 and 2, respectively. The venccting said collector with itsvehicle, the hicles are here shown asioad trucks?) and i, collectors ofvehicles travelling in opposite 76 Fig. 1. Each Vehicle carries a cabledrum directions engaging with different trolley d t r h i 5, hi h c tais'within lines, together with means carried by each it, as indicateddiagrammatically, a cable vehicle arranged to guard the superstrucdrumand motor arranged to exert a con ture of its vehicle from interferencewith stunttorque on the drum. A three-conducthe flexible conductor cableof a passing tor cable 6 leads from the-cable druin over vehicle. aswivelled pulley 16 to the trolley carriage An electrical transportationsystem 0 T where the conductor strands of the cable comprising aplurality of electrically driven connect through trolley contact wheelswith vehicles, a roadway therefor, two sets of the trolley wires. Thetrolley carriages are trolley power lines strung. along one Side 010 sosupported on and guided by the trolley the roadway, one above the other,a current wires so to trail along with the vehicle, collector member foreach car arranged to th upper set of trolley wires being raised engageone of said trolley lines and adapted sufficiently above the lower. Setto permit to move along the same and be supported two vehicles to passin opposite directions thereby, and a flexible conductor cable con- 35without interference of the cables, as in uecting' said collector withits vehicle, the dicatcd in F ig. 1. To further guard against collectorsof vehicles travelling in opposite 40 interference of the cables, eachvehicle is directions engag ng with d fferent trolley provided with acable guard 8 in the form l nes, together w th a guarding ramp car of anarc shaped ramp mounted on the top ricd by each vehicle arranged toguard the no of the vehicle. These guards are so an superstructure ofits vehicle from interferranged that the one on the vehicle nearest encewith the flexible conductor cable of a the trolley poles will guide thecable of the passing vehlcle. f hi l Over th abl a d m t r 1 1 Intestimony whereof I hereunto affix my ing of the near vehicle,shouldthere be any s1gnature.- V sag inthe cable of the far vehicle.ARCH U; AVERA

